“When I’m writing something, it’s all I can think about when I’m brushing my teeth or driving my car,” Sorkin said during a roundtable discussion Wednesday afternoon. “I didn’t just want to dramatize the biography.”

In a small conference room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City Sunday afternoon, director Sarah Gavron discussed the nearly decade-long process of making Suffragette, a film detailing a portion of the women’s rights movement in early 20th Century England.